Are you Eating A Chocolate Bunny? Ever Wonder Where It Came From?

In this latest issue of Snack Facts we see Sir Francis Sweetums and his lovely assistant Barbara learning all about the history of the chocolate bunny. Bunnies have been associated with Easter for a long time, but the chocolate bunny came a bit later. When the chocolate bunny did arrive, it arrived in a big way.

Make sure to order the latest issue of Snack Facts and learn all about this chocolate treat.

You can pick up the latest issue and all the back issues here. You can also download issue 0 for free.

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Pick Up This Easter Fun Issue Of Snack Facts!!!

In this latest issue of Snack Facts we see Sir Francis Sweetums and his lovely assistant Barbara learning all about the history of the chocolate bunny. Bunnies have been associated with Easter for a long time, but the chocolate bunny came a bit later. When the chocolate bunny did arrive, it arrived in a big way.

Make sure to order the latest issue of Snack Facts and learn all about this chocolate treat.

You can pick up the latest issue and all the back issues here. You can also download issue 0 for free.

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Bunny Time!!!

For my last Easter review I decided to go with this chocolate Easter Bunny Kit Kat treat. The one thing I've noticed over the years is an increase in brand name Easter treats. Not that Easter treats didn't have popular brand names when I was a kid, but today I'm noticing more every day brands are coming out with Easter treats. So now you're seeing Butterfinger eggs, Crunchy mini eggs, and Kit Kat bunnies. I'm not sure how I feel about that, particularly since it appears that the classic Easter treats are getting less shelf space.

Click here to read about this Kit Kat bunny.

Make sure to follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to see what else we've found this Easter.

Also be sure to check out the latest Easter themed issue of Snack Facts.

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That's A Big Bunny

Why not tell your neighbours how much you love Easter with this giant inflatable Easter bunny.

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Easter In Covid Times

I feel like Easter is the one holiday that can work during Covid. While we all want to be outside or with extended family right now, Easter is the holiday where those in your house can celebrate together. More to the point, even if Covid was not a thing, it's very likely that you would not be going out during Easter (except those who celebrate at church). So start thinking about how you can celebrate this year and make sure to make it a great Easter. Hide treats no matter how old you are, paint Easter eggs now matter what lever artist you are, make this the best Easter ever and build new traditions that will last forever. If you do know someone who is absolutely alone, dawn your bunny ears and drop off a basket at their front door.

Be safe, but make Easter awesome.

Click here to read the first of several Easter review I have planned for this year.

Also be sure to check out my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to see what else I've got planned.

I just dropped a new video on YouTube all about this particular Easter bunny, be sure to check it out.

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Candy In the Media - Reese's Easter Commercial Is Suggesting Something

I might be reading into this a little bit, but is the implication here that chocolate bunnies and peanut butter jars hook up and produce peanut butter eggs?

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I Want Easter Candy Variety, And I Have Suggestions

Easter is a very simple holiday candy wise.  There are really only a few candies that dominate the market, Easter eggs, jellybeans, and chocolate bunnies.  Don't get me wrong, I love all of those treats, in fact I think we should have these treats (or versions of them) available throughout the year.  I am however a lover of creativity, and seeing the same Easter candy year after year gets me down.  Several times on this blog I've spent the time designing specific new candy treats for holidays, but not this time.

Rather than be specific about the design of treats, I want candy makers out there to be a little bit more creative.  I'm going to suggest types of candies that I think would work for Easter, and let the candy companies’ work out the details.  These are fairly broad candy categories that I've never seen Easter candy touch, but I think with a little creativity you could have some new classic Easter treats. Right now Easter treats are really limited in creativity, so I think there's just so many places you could go.

The first category is one that might seem like the worst Easter treat idea ever, but I think it would work is potato chips.  Instantly I'm sure your mind is thinking, how do chocolate eggs and potato chips go together, but you have to think a little more broadly.  Recently Lay's has had several contests to vote for a new flavour of chip, and in almost all of these contests there was a "sweet" flavour.  Why not take this sweet flavour and work in an Easter spin, how about hot cross buns flavoured chips (hot cross buns are a traditional Easter dessert in the UK).  You could also go with Easter ham flavoured chips, that would be far less strange but still in the spirit.  Best of all you could limit these chips for the holiday, and therefore not wear out the novelty.

The second category for Easter expansion is gummies.  I feel like a broken record when I tell people that gummies should be expanded into a holiday treat, because frankly I believe gummies are the most versatile candy in the world.  There have been a few Easter gummies (pictured above), however I feel like there could be thousands more.  This is also something you could merge into the chocolate bunny and chocolate egg world. Why not make chocolate flavoured gummy eggs and bunnies.  Even fruity gummy Easter eggs would work, and you could make them super decorated.

Probably the most obvious treat that seems to have missed out on Easter is lollipops.  The round shape of a lollipop would be perfect to link up with an Easter egg.  You could make all kinds of fun flavours and decorate them just like fancy Easter eggs.  If you're really creative you could go with super detailed Easter egg lollipops and decorate them like Ukrainian Easter eggs.  A lollipop of that calibre could be the first edible museum piece ever.

There are three simple candy ideas that I've never seen (or seen very little of), that we already know are popular in the snack food world. So come on candy companies, let’s stretch out the Easter candy lines and make something a little out of the ordinary.

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Easter Greeting Cards From Candy Critic

Easter Bunny Greeting Card by bewarethecheese
Shop for more greeting cards online at Zazzle.

Hey gang, why not pick up a fun greeting card for that special someone this Easter.  Candy Critic has a whole bunch of designs for you to check out including this snazzy one.

Click here to check out the store to see a few more of our cards, t-shirts, and posters.

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Candy In The Media

Of all the commercials ever produced, I think this Cadbury Easter Creme Egg commercial symbolizes Easter to me the best.  The idea of a clucking bunny gives me fond memories of searching out candy baskets early on Easter morning.  To this day, in our house Easter Creme Eggs are an Easter tradition, and every year we await the clucking bunny to deliver them.

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A Build Your Own Easter Candy Thing

When I was a kid my dad used to make up huge Easter baskets for us on Easter.  While he certainly wouldn't skimp on the sweet treats, he also made sure to add a few toys into the mix as well.  Inevitably there would often be something Lego in my basket every year.  It was never a huge Lego set, but always a fun little project that would go really well with my birthday gifts I had recently received (since my birthday is on March 5th).  If anybody else likes to give their kids Lego sets for Easter, this one might be the perfect choice.

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This Week In Candy

Well, the pre-Easter week is upon us, and that means the shelves are full of fun treats and everything seems to have a pastel colour about it.  This year, more than ever, I'm starting to see the DIY (do it yourself) culture come out in droves for this holiday.  On the internet I've seen all kinds of cool Easter projects, and people re-building classic Easter treats into something original.  When I was a kid all you had was your classic chocolate Easter Bunny, and few other choice treats, but today there's so much more available.  With this great variety of treats I think it's actually inspiring people to take their Easter treats even further.  So what's your favourite Easter hack?

This week on our Instagram feed Snack Facts, we're looking at Easter of coarse.  Each day we'll be posting an interesting fact about the holiday most well known for a bunny that gives out chocolate eggs.  You can follow Snack facts on Instagram, or if you don't use Instagram you can also follow on our Facebook page or Twitter feed as well.

As you would imagine, this week's review is also Easter themed.  It's a re-imagining of arguably one of the most famous Easter chocolate treats ever made, the Cadbury Creme Egg.  Check out the review of this mini classic Easter treat right here.

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A Pink Bunny Candy Thing

While looking at things to feature for Easter on the weekly Candy Thing post, I realized that the Easter Bunny may be the only holiday character that really doesn't have a gender.  That means that this slightly sexy Easter Bunny costume might actually be appropriate.  Personally I think it would be great if the Easter Bunny was a girl, after all there aren't that many holiday themed characters that are women.  However this costume doesn't really demonstrate how much this idea is a great step in the direction toward equality for women in the field of holiday characters.

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Friday Candy Video

Not enough people take the time to thank the Easter Bunny any more.  It's as if after the bunny leaves we just clam up and start the sugar high.  Well I found this old M&M's commercial that pays tribute to being polite to our favorite candy delivering rodent.

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Classic/Creative Easter Candy Advertising

I don't think I like the idea of the Easter Bunny being portrayed as lazy.  This advertisement is basically saying, "hey, I didn't feel like giving you a variety of treats this year for Easter, instead I'll just stop at Walmart and pick you up a couple of bars".

I found this ad here.

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A Cool Easter Candy Thing

It seems that every holiday has some kind of pooping candy dispenser. Although I think of all of the holidays Easter is probably the most appropriate.  First of all, the main commercial character that represents the holiday is a bunny (sorry Jesus), and bunnies do poop all over the place.  Secondly, the main attraction of Easter is to search out chocolate prizes hidden all over the place, and frankly poop is always hiding all over the place (the resemblance of chocolate and poop is also noted).  So really this toy is very appropriate to this holiday, and makes the perfect gift for anyone.

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It's Time For An Easter Review

I managed to convince the Easter Bunny to make a quick stop at my house early this year.  That way I could get the Easter review online well before Easter.  Fortunately the Easter bunny is a pretty easy going guy, so in no time he dropped off a couple of treats for me to review.  He didn't leave my whole stash, just a sampler.

Click here to read our Easter review.

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Classic/Creative Candy Advertising

When did it become un-cool to dress up as a bunny?  It seems like the perfect costume.  I'm sure it keeps you warm, it's got a great deal mobility, and girls would be more than happy to give you a scratch now and then.  Sure it's not as cool as the current trendy costume, Miley Cyrus and Robin Thick twerking (oh man), but it's timeless and you could use it as pajamas afterwards.

I found this ad here.

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Happy Easter

I hope the bunny brings you some good chocolate.

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Stuff I Want To Try

Giant Peeps  - Just Born - We all need to eat a giant marshmallow bunny once in out lifetime. - Click here to learn more about this treat.

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A Look At Easter Treats

When you think about Easter candy, you generally have two themes that come to mind, eggs and bunnies.  Both of them have their advantages and disadvantages, and both of them are very prolific on the Easter candy shelves.  The question is, is one Easter candy theme better than the other?  Would you rather have a basket full of eggs, or a basket full of bunnies waiting for you on Easter morning?

The most common type of Easter treat has to be chocolate.  Often it's hollow chocolate, but sometimes it's solid or filled with something sweet.  In these cases eggs provide some advantages while bunnies provide others.  The key difference is in the shape (we'll ignore the size variation at this point since both shapes come in many sizes), the egg is a large single cavity with lots of room for filling (or air), the bunny generally has smaller cavities for filling, but it has more variation in cavity size.  When it comes to chocolate filled treats you're faced with either a large amount of filling (the egg) or great varieties of filling.  So which you prefer depends on if you want a lot of filling, or if you want your filling to be tasted in different proportions to the chocolate on each bite.

If your chocolate bunny or egg happens to be hollow, I think the decision is a lot easier to make.  I think the bunny is the best way to eat a hollowed out Easter treat.  The egg has way too much air, and often shatters into a million pieces too easily.  If you happen to be eating a solid chocolate bunny or egg, I think bunny is really the only choice.  Unless the egg is really small, I don't think anybody would have a good time trying to eat it. The solid chocolate bunny allows for more bite choices without breaking your jaw.

The other area of thought is in the non-chocolate Easter related treats.  These are generally far and few between compared to their chocolate comrades  particularly in egg department.  There are a few egg treats, but most of them are similar to Jelly beans.  They're candy coated egg shaped treats filled with something either jelly like or marshmallow like.  While I do eat these if offered, I generally don't prefer these eggs.  Bunnies on the other hand seem to dominate the gummy world.  I've seen a few varieties of gummy bunnies, some are great, some are kind of gross, but that's par for the course with gummies.

While there are certainly other shapes of Easter treats available, in my experience bunnies and eggs tend to work best.  With an egg or a bunny you're instantly able to identify it with Easter.  Other attempts I've sampled either lose the Easter feeling, or in some cases they're just flat out weird.

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